Contingent application of the cancellation editing operation: the role of semantic relatedness between risky outcomes

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolao Bonini ◽  
Katya Tentori ◽  
Rino Rumiati
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Editing Operation

The Expectation-Violation Effect and the Role of Semantic Relatedness in an Episodic Task

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriett Amster ◽  
Christopher Brooks ◽  
Suzann Lucas ◽  
Nilufer Ozyoruk-Gee
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Relatedness

scholarly journals Extra-foveal Processing of Object Semantics Guides Early Overt Attention During Visual Search

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 655-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Cimminella ◽  
Sergio Della Sala ◽  
Moreno I. Coco
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Visual Saliency ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Foveal Vision ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Overt Attention ◽  
Critical Object ◽  
High Level

AbstractEye-tracking studies using arrays of objects have demonstrated that some high-level processing of object semantics can occur in extra-foveal vision, but its role on the allocation of early overt attention is still unclear. This eye-tracking visual search study contributes novel findings by examining the role of object-to-object semantic relatedness and visual saliency on search responses and eye-movement behaviour across arrays of increasing size (3, 5, 7). Our data show that a critical object was looked at earlier and for longer when it was semantically unrelated than related to the other objects in the display, both when it was the search target (target-present trials) and when it was a target’s semantically related competitor (target-absent trials). Semantic relatedness effects manifested already during the very first fixation after array onset, were consistently found for increasing set sizes, and were independent of low-level visual saliency, which did not play any role. We conclude that object semantics can be extracted early in extra-foveal vision and capture overt attention from the very first fixation. These findings pose a challenge to models of visual attention which assume that overt attention is guided by the visual appearance of stimuli, rather than by their semantics.

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